In sportscasting and sports betting terminology the word “chalk” denotes a team or program with a long history of success and that is thus a prohibitive favorite to emerge victorious over underdogs or dark horses. …

Helter Skelter + Saved! + South Park with a dash of Rocky Horror Picture Show thrown in. Now write a review for a Christian audience. My try is at CT Movies.

Update: Thought I’d give this teaser for my review at CTMB a bump since the film finally appears headed for a theatrical release in the United States:
This review originally appeared at Christianity Today Movies Blog …

Bright Star is passionate, penetrating, and surprisingly tender. It is easily my favorite Jane Campion film. More thoughts available at the Christianity Today Movies Blog.

Films that depict communal religious life with nuance and sympathy are rare, and those that probe without cliché the relationships, communal and familial, between women are rarer still. So why didn’t I love Margarethe von …